The Moon and Jupiter will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 4°05' to the north of Jupiter. The Moon will be 28 days old.

From Ashburn (click to change), the pair will be difficult to observe as they will appear no higher than 10° above the horizon. They will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 05:30 (EDT) – 1 hour and 25 minutes before the Sun – and reach an altitude of 10° above the south-eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 06:36.

The Moon will be at mag -8.6, and Jupiter at mag -1.7, both in the constellation Libra.

The pair will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a
telescope, but will be visible
to the naked eye or
through a pair of binoculars.

A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and
Jupiter around the time of closest approach is
available here.

The positions of the two objects at the moment of conjunction will be as follows:

Warning

Never attempt to point a pair of binoculars or a telescope at an object close to the Sun. Doing so
may result in immediate and permanent blindness.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE405 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.